Dan, thanks for chiming in that you use Encore CS5 on a Mac — my problem is similar to those reported. I have the animated motion menus in my DVD project (TV Menu & TV Submenu). When I render the project, the first HOURS are devoted to rendering the menus. This morning, for example, I started it at 1115 and now, 8 menus later at 1416, it just finished cooking the menus.
I’m running Encore CS5 on a Late 2009 iMac with 4gb of RAM, and the files live on a hard-wired outboard media drive. All other programs are closed.
I noted that the TV Menus are pre-defined to not transcode, which I thought was odd, but lots of this is new to me.
I’d love to know how to do this faster. Any ideas??
best!
DCR